OpenFOAM 工具列表

OpenFOAM工具可以在终端输入命令 cd $FOAM_UTILITIES查看，标准小工具列表如下：   Pre-processing   前处理
applyBoundaryLayer	Apply a simplified boundary-layer model to the velocity and turbulence fields based on the 1/7th power-law
applyWallFunctionBoundaryConditions	Updates OpenFOAM RAS cases to use the new (v1.6) wall function framework
boxTurb	Makes a box of turbulence which conforms to a given energy spectrum and is divergence free
changeDictionary	Utility to change dictionary entries, e.g. can be used to change the patch type in the field and polyMesh/boundary files
dsmcInitialise	Initialise a case for dsmcFoam by reading the initialisation dictionarysystem/dsmcInitialise
engineSwirl	Generates a swirling flow for engine calulations
faceAgglomerate	(Currently no description)
foamUpgradeCyclics	Tool to upgrade mesh and fields for split cyclics
foamUpgradeFvSolution	Simple tool to upgrade the syntax of system/fvSolution::solvers
mapFields	Maps volume fields from one mesh to another, reading and interpolating all fields present in the time directory of both cases. Parallel and non-parallel cases are handled without the need to reconstruct them first
mdInitialise	Initialises fields for a molecular dynamics (MD) simulation
setFields	Set values on a selected set of cells/patchfaces through a dictionary
viewFactorGen	(Description not found)
wallFunctionTable	Generates a table suitable for use by tabulated wall functions
Mesh generation   网格生成
blockMesh	A multi-block mesh generator
extrudeMesh	Extrude mesh from existing patch (by default outwards facing normals; optional flips faces) or from patch read from file.
extrude2DMesh	Takes 2D mesh (all faces 2 points only, no front and back faces) and creates a 3D mesh by extruding with specified thickness
extrudeToRegionMesh	Extrude faceZones into separate mesh (as a different region), e.g. for creating liquid film regions
snappyHexMesh	Automatic split hex mesher. Refines and snaps to surface
Mesh conversion  网格转换
ansysToFoam	Converts an ANSYS input mesh file, exported from I-DEAS, to OpenFOAM format
cfx4ToFoam	Converts a CFX 4 mesh to OpenFOAM format
datToFoam	Reads in a datToFoam mesh file and outputs a points file. Used in conjunction with blockMesh
fluent3DMeshToFoam	Converts a Fluent mesh to OpenFOAM format
fluentMeshToFoam	Converts a Fluent mesh to OpenFOAM format including multiple region and region boundary handling
foamMeshToFluent	Writes out the OpenFOAM mesh in Fluent mesh format
foamToStarMesh	Reads an OpenFOAM mesh and writes a PROSTAR (v4) bnd/cel/vrt format
foamToSurface	Reads an OpenFOAM mesh and writes the boundaries in a surface format
gambitToFoam	Converts a GAMBIT mesh to OpenFOAM format
gmshToFoam	Reads .msh file as written by Gmsh
ideasUnvToFoam	I-Deas unv format mesh conversion
kivaToFoam	Converts a KIVA grid to OpenFOAM format
mshToFoam	Converts .msh file generated by the Adventure system
netgenNeutralToFoam	Converts neutral file format as written by Netgen v4.4
plot3dToFoam	Plot3d mesh (ascii/formatted format) converter
sammToFoam	Converts a STAR-CD (v3) SAMM mesh to OpenFOAM format
star3ToFoam	Converts a STAR-CD (v3) PROSTAR mesh into OpenFOAM format
star4ToFoam	Converts a STAR-CD (v4) PROSTAR mesh into OpenFOAM format
tetgenToFoam	Converts .ele and .node and .face files, written by tetgen
writeMeshObj	For mesh debugging: writes mesh as three separate OBJ files which can be viewed with e.g. javaview
Mesh manipulation 网格处理
attachMesh	Attach topologically detached mesh using prescribed mesh modifiers
autoPatch	Divides external faces into patches based on (user supplied) feature angle
checkMesh	Checks validity of a mesh
createBaffles	Makes internal faces into boundary faces. Does not duplicate points, unlikemergeOrSplitBaffles
createPatch	Utility to create patches out of selected boundary faces. Faces come either from existing patches or from a faceSet
deformedGeom	Deforms a polyMesh using a displacement field U and a scaling factor supplied as an argument
flattenMesh	Flattens the front and back planes of a 2D cartesian mesh
insideCells	Picks up cells with cell centre ’inside’ of surface. Requires surface to be closed and singly connected
mergeMeshes	Merge two meshes
mergeOrSplitBaffles	Detects faces that share points (baffles). Either merge them or duplicate the points
mirrorMesh	Mirrors a mesh around a given plane
moveDynamicMesh	Mesh motion and topological mesh changes utility
moveEngineMesh	Solver for moving meshes for engine calculations
moveMesh	Solver for moving meshes
objToVTK	Read obj line (not surface!) file and convert into vtk
polyDualMesh	Calculate the dual of a polyMesh. Adheres to all the feature and patch edges
refineMesh	Utility to refine cells in multiple directions
renumberMesh	Renumbers the cell list in order to reduce the bandwidth, reading and renumbering all fields from all the time directories
rotateMesh	Rotates the mesh and fields from the direcion   to the direction
setSet	Manipulate a cell/face/point/ set or zone interactively
setsToZones	Add pointZones/faceZones/cellZones to the mesh from similar namedpointSets/faceSets/cellSets
singleCellMesh	Removes all but one cells of the mesh. Used to generate mesh and fields that can be used for boundary-only data. Might easily result in illegal mesh though so only look at boundaries in paraview
splitMesh	Splits mesh by making internal faces external. Uses attachDetach
splitMeshRegions	Splits mesh into multiple regions
stitchMesh	’Stitches’ a mesh
subsetMesh	Selects a section of mesh based on a cellSet
topoSet	Operates on cellSets/faceSets/pointSets through a dictionary
transformPoints	Transforms the mesh points in the polyMesh directory according to the translate, rotate and scale options
zipUpMesh	Reads in a mesh with hanging vertices and zips up the cells to guarantee that all polyhedral cells of valid shape are closed
Other mesh tools 其他网格工具
autoRefineMesh	Utility to refine cells near to a surface
collapseEdges	Collapse short edges and combines edges that are in line
combinePatchFaces	Checks for multiple patch faces on same cell and combines them. These result from e.g. refined neighbouring cells getting removed, leaving 4 exposed faces with same owner
modifyMesh	Manipulates mesh elements
PDRMesh	Mesh and field preparation utility for PDR type simulations
refineHexMesh	Refines a hex mesh by 2x2x2 cell splitting
refinementLevel	Tries to figure out what the refinement level is on refined cartesian meshes. Run beforesnapping
refineWallLayer	Utility to refine cells next to patches
removeFaces	Utility to remove faces (combines cells on both sides)
selectCells	Select cells in relation to surface
splitCells	Utility to split cells with flat faces
Post-processing graphics   后处理
ensightFoamReader	EnSight library module to read OpenFOAM data directly without translation
fieldview9Reader	Reader module for Fieldview 9 to read OpenFOAM mesh and data
Post-processing data converters  后处理数据转换器
foamDataToFluent	Translates OpenFOAM data to Fluent format
foamToEnsight	Translates OpenFOAM data to EnSight format
foamToEnsightParts	Translates OpenFOAM data to Ensight format. An Ensight part is created for eachcellZone and patch
foamToFieldview9	Write out the OpenFOAM mesh in Version 3.0 Fieldview-UNS format (binary)
foamToGMV	Translates foam output to GMV readable files
foamToTecplot360	Tecplot binary file format writer
foamToVTK	Legacy VTK file format writer
smapToFoam	Translates a STAR-CD SMAP data file into OpenFOAM field format
Post-processing velocity fields  速度场后处理
Co	Configurable graph drawing program
enstrophy	Calculates and writes the enstrophy of the velocity field U
flowType	Calculates and writes the flowType of velocity field U
Lambda2	Calculates and writes the second largest eigenvalue of the sum of the square of the symmetrical and anti-symmetrical parts of the velocity gradient tensor
Mach	Calculates and optionally writes the local Mach number from the velocity field U at each time
Pe	Calculates and writes the Pe number as a surfaceScalarField obtained from field phi
Q	Calculates and writes the second invariant of the velocity gradient tensor
streamFunction	Calculates and writes the stream function of velocity field U at each time
uprime	Calculates and writes the scalar field of uprime ( )
vorticity	Calculates and writes the vorticity of velocity field U
Post-processing stress fields  压力场后处理
stressComponents	Calculates and writes the scalar fields of the six components of the stress tensor sigmafor each time
Post-processing scalar fields  标量场后处理
pPrime2	Calculates and writes the scalar field of pPrime2 ( ) at each time
Post-processing at walls  壁面后处理
wallGradU	Calculates and writes the gradient of U at the wall
wallHeatFlux	Calculates and writes the heat flux for all patches as the boundary field of avolScalarField and also prints the integrated flux for all wall patches
wallShearStress	Calculates and writes the wall shear stress, for the specified times
yPlusLES	Calculates and reports yPlus for all wall patches, for the specified times
yPlusRAS	Calculates and reports yPlus for all wall patches, for the specified times when using RAS turbulence models
Post-processing turbulence  湍流后处理
createTurbulenceFields	Creates a full set of turbulence fields
R	Calculates and writes the Reynolds stress R for the current time step
Post-processing patch data   边界数据后处理
patchAverage	Calculates the average of the specified field over the specified patch
patchIntegrate	Calculates the integral of the specified field over the specified patch
Post-processing Lagrangian simulation  后处理Lagrangian计算
particleTracks	Generates a VTK file of particle tracks for cases that were computed using a tracked-parcel-type cloud
steadyParticleTracks	Generates a VTK file of particle tracks for cases that were computed using a steady-state cloud NOTE: case must be re-constructed (if running in parallel) before use
Sampling post-processing 取样后处理
probeLocations	Probe locations
sample	Sample field data with a choice of interpolation schemes, sampling options and write formats
Miscellaneous post-processing  其他后处理工具
dsmcFieldsCalc	Calculate intensive fields (U and T) from averaged extensive fields from a DSMC calculation
engineCompRatio	Calculate the geometric compression ratio. Note that if you have valves and/or extra volumes it will not work, since it calculates the volume at BDC and TCD
execFlowFunctionObjects	Execute the set of functionObjects specified in the selected dictionary (which defaults tosystem/controlDict) for the selected set of times. Alternative dictionaries should be placed in the system/ folder
foamCalc	Generic utility for simple field calculations at specified times
foamListTimes	List times using timeSelector
pdfPlot	Generates a graph of a probability distribution function
postChannel	Post-processes data from channel flow calculations
ptot	For each time: calculate the total pressure
wdot	Calculates and writes wdot for each time
writeCellCentres	Write the three components of the cell centres as volScalarFields so they can be used in postprocessing in thresholding
Surface mesh (e.g. STL) tools  面网格工具
surfaceAdd	Add two surfaces. Does geometric merge on points. Does not check for overlapping/intersecting triangles
surfaceAutoPatch	Patches surface according to feature angle. Like autoPatch
surfaceCheck	(Currently no description)
surfaceClean	- removes baffles - collapses small edges, removing triangles. - converts sliver triangles into split edges by projecting point onto base of triangle
surfaceCoarsen	Surface coarsening using ’bunnylod’:
surfaceConvert	Converts from one surface mesh format to another
surfaceFeatureConvert	Convert between edgeMesh formats
surfaceFeatureExtract	Extracts and writes surface features to file
surfaceFind	Finds nearest face and vertex
surfaceInertia	Calculates the inertia tensor and principal axes and moments of a command line specified triSurface. Inertia can either be of the solid body or of a thin shell
surfaceMeshConvert	Convert between surface formats with optional scaling or transformations (rotate/translate) on a coordinateSystem
surfaceMeshConvertTesting	Converts from one surface mesh format to another, but primarily used for testing functionality
surfaceMeshExport	Export from surfMesh to various third-party surface formats with optional scaling or transformations (rotate/translate) on a coordinateSystem
surfaceMeshImport	Import from various third-party surface formats into surfMesh with optional scaling or transformations (rotate/translate) on a coordinateSystem
surfaceMeshInfo	Miscellaneous information about surface meshes
surfaceMeshTriangulate	Extracts triSurface from a polyMesh. Triangulates all boundary faces. Region numbers on triangles are the patch numbers of the polyMesh. Optionally only triangulates named patches
surfaceOrient	Set normal consistent with respect to a user provided ’outside’ point. If -inside the point is considered inside
surfacePointMerge	Merges points on surface if they are within absolute distance. Since absolute distance use with care!
surfaceRedistributePar	(Re)distribution of triSurface. Either takes an undecomposed surface or an already decomposed surface and redistribute it so each processor has all triangles that overlap its mesh
surfaceRefineRedGreen	Refine by splitting all three edges of triangle (’red’ refinement). Neighbouring triangles (which are not marked for refinement get split in half (’green’) refinement. (R. Verfuerth, ”A review of a posteriori error estimation and adaptive mesh refinement techniques”, Wiley-Teubner, 1996)
surfaceSmooth	Example of a simple laplacian smoother
surfaceSplitByPatch	Writes regions of triSurface to separate files
surfaceSplitNonManifolds	Takes multiply connected surface and tries to split surface at multiply connected edges by duplicating points. Introduces concept of - borderEdge. Edge with 4 faces connected to it. - borderPoint. Point connected to exactly 2 borderEdges. - borderLine. Connected list of borderEdges
surfaceSubset	A surface analysis tool which sub-sets the triSurface to choose only a part of interest. Based on subsetMesh
surfaceToPatch	Reads surface and applies surface regioning to a mesh. Uses boundaryMesh to do the hard work
surfaceTransformPoints	Transform (scale/rotate) a surface. Like transformPoints but for surfaces
Parallel processing  并行处理
decomposePar	Automatically decomposes a mesh and fields of a case for parallel execution of OpenFOAM
reconstructPar	Reconstructs a mesh and fields of a case that is decomposed for parallel execution of OpenFOAM
reconstructParMesh	Reconstructs a mesh using geometric information only
redistributeMeshPar	Redistributes existing decomposed mesh and fields according to the current settings in the decomposeParDict file
Thermophysical-related utilities 热物理相关工具
adiabaticFlameT	Calculates the adiabatic flame temperature for a given fuel over a range of unburnt temperatures and equivalence ratios
chemkinToFoam	Converts CHEMKIN 3 thermodynamics and reaction data files into OpenFOAM format
equilibriumCO	Calculates the equilibrium level of carbon monoxide
equilibriumFlameT	Calculates the equilibrium flame temperature for a given fuel and pressure for a range of unburnt gas temperatures and equivalence ratios; the effects of dissociation on O2,H2O andCO2are included
mixtureAdiabaticFlameT	Calculates the adiabatic flame temperature for a given mixture at a given temperature
Miscellaneous utilities 其他工具
expandDictionary	Read the dictionary provided as an argument, expand the macros etc. and write the resulting dictionary to standard output
foamDebugSwitches	Write out all library debug switches
foamFormatConvert	Converts all IOobjects associated with a case into the format specified in thecontrolDict
foamInfoExec	Interrogates a case and prints information to stdout
patchSummary	Writes fields and boundary condition info for each patch at each requested time instance